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George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 1 (search)
Duvals, and others, from various States. Some of these he was destined to meet again as fellow-students at West Point, and some, as Edmund Schriver, Henry DuPont, Percival Drayton, and James S. Biddle, in the army or the navy. Young Meade was still attending this school when intelligence of his father's serious illness was brought to him. Although hastening to Washington as rapidly as the means of travel in those days admitted, he failed to arrive before his father's death, on the 25th of June, 1828. Mr. Meade's bitter and constant disappointment in the prosecution of his claim under the Treaty of Florida had had much to do with the termination of his career at the comparatively early age of fifty. He had had to contemplate, year after year, the injustice through which the property which he as a private citizen of the United States had accumulated by honest industry, in a life of voluntary exile, had gone into the coffers of the state, never to be recovered, by means of a trea
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct., chapter 9 (search)
own Genealogies and Estates, 260-271. D———, nurse infant from D., Medford, d. here 24 Nov. 1782. D Damon, Martha T. and James M. Bent, of Wayland, m. 3 June, 1838. Niece of the following. 2. Rev. David, installed minister of Church and Parish in West Cambridge, 13 Mar. 1835; d. 25 June, 1843. Born Wayland, 12 Sept. 1787, grad. H. U. 1811; studied theology at Univ. Camb. under Rev. Prof. Ware; ordained at Lunenburg, 1 Feb. 1815, dismissed 2 Dec. 1827; installed Amesbury 25 June, 1828, dismissed 25 Dec. 1832, and preached there till 1 Apr. 1833; removed in Oct. 1833 to Reading West Parish, and supplied the desk of the Third Cong. Society till his removal to West Cambridge.—Am. Quar. Register for 1839. The following inscription was placed on Mr. Damon's grave stone in the new cemetery: The Rev. David Damon, D. D., whose body rests beneath this marble, was for eight years minister of the First Congregational Society in West Cambridge. Honored for his genius